A frame-semantic analysis of five English verbs evoking the Theft frame

A frame-semantic analysis of five English verbs evoking the Theft frame

An important problem in lexical semantics is the explanation of how verbal meaning interacts with the syntactic realization of arguments. Levin (1993) recognizes the relation between syntax and semantics in her classification of English verbs, in which similar syntactic behavior among verbs is assum...

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Main Author: Dux, Ryan Joseph
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Linguistics
Syntax
Semantics
Frame semantics
Verb descriptivity
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3114

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